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Simon,
Ah ! Chimay ! Where the track surface finished, the Armco started ... not a track to be trifled with.
I raced there in 2002, '04 and I think a third year. Local authority road surfacing added to the fun and one of the right-handers at the North of the circuit went through a farmer's front yard ... first time I raced there, the farmer was climbing a ladder to clean his front windows with the foot of the ladder on the apex of the corner. Aaargh ! I didn't see him in subsequent years, so I assume he didn't survive ....
The organiser's snatch vehicle would just tow a car in during a race - no white flags or anything. During the race, on the fast downhill right-hander on the return leg I discovered the towtruck with a defunct Lotus Cortina on the blind apex doing 10 mph...
Good fun, but after the third visit, I concluded I had used up my fund of good luck at the circuit. And I was tiring of the giant wasp swarms in the paddock.
Nick
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